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Our Sing Praise and Reverb choirs sang at the new Bishop’s welcome and enthronement in St Edmundsbury Cathedral
folliw this link to hear how beautifully they sang
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The new Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, Dr Joanne Grenfell, .had a service of welcome and enthronement at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds on Saturday at 14:00.
The 53-year-old said it had felt like a "whirlwind" since she was announced as the next bishop and she was looking forward to the ceremony.
IMAGE SOURCE, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Image caption, Dr Joanne Grenfell was legally confirmed as the new Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich last year
FROM
the East Anglian Daily Times interview with our new bishop talking about her first day in the diocese:
One stop-off that day was at St Michael’s Church in Framlingham, where children from Sing Praise performed several songs. After the singing, they gave me the gift of a bright green choir sweatshirt. Despite the warmth of the lovely summer’s day, I put it on straight away. My face may have been strawberry red with heat for the next twenty minutes, but I had no regrets. I knew I could belong here. What a welcome! After the singing, we had time to chat, and the children asked me lots of questions. One thing they wanted to know was what my favourite song was. So, I told them how much I love Nina Simone’s "Feeling Good." I’m humming it now as I remember: "Birds flying high, you know how I feel…
I’d all but forgotten my conversation with the Sing Praise children about my favourite song, so imagine my delight when I heard from my colleague at the Cathedral, Canon Katy, that the children had been in touch with her to ask if they could be considered to sing "Feeling Good" at the service. These are young people who are confident to ask because of what they experience in church and school of their own place in God’s great welcome. They are also young people who know that they could ask to have a role in extending that great welcome to me and to the people of Suffolk through the gift of music.
